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Biography

Yvonne Conway is a registered general nurse and nurse tutor with specialist clinical experience in Emergency nursing in the UK, Ireland and USA. Yvonne has a particular interest in trauma nursing and worked in a number of level 1 trauma centres in the States. Her clinical certifications included Pre-hospital Trauma life Support (PHTLS), Advanced Cardiac life Support (ACLS), Paediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) instructor. She has a Masters in primary care from the Royal College of Surgeons. She developed and directed the Post Graduate Diploma in Nursing (Emergency) for AMNCH Hospital and Trinity College Dublin from 1998 - 2002. Currently she is the programme director for the Master/Postgraduate Diploma in Health Sciences (Emergency) and the Master/Postgraduate Diploma in Health Sciences (Acute Medicine) in NUI Galway. Research interests include - Emergency Nursing, Primary care, Post Graduate Specialist Nurse Education, Acute Medicine, Mental health issues in Emergency Nursing. She is a member of the Mental Health Research Cluster in NUI Galway and the College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Ethics Committee. She was a co-applicant on the Health Research Board funded PRINCE study (2007) and National Office for Suicide Prevention SCAN review study (2012) carried out by the nursing and midwifery department NUI Galway. Currently working on a Cochrane systematic review examining the "
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The Emergency Department’s role as a primary care provider . Conference proceedings from The Fourth National Conference of the Irish Society For Immediate Care in partnership with the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC) and the Departments of General Practice - University College Dublin & National University of Ireland, Galway.
Conway, Y. (2004) The Emergency Department’s role as a primary care provider . Conference proceedings from The Fourth National Conference of the Irish Society For Immediate Care in partnership with the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC) and the Departments of General Practice - University College Dublin & National University of Ireland, Galway. Conference Paper [Details]

Postgraduate students’ experiences and appraisal of microteaching as a teaching strategy, . presented at Transforming healthcare through Research, Education and Technology, 10th Annual Interdisciplinary Research conference School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin.
Mooney, B., Smyth, S Conway, Y (2009) Postgraduate students’ experiences and appraisal of microteaching as a teaching strategy, . presented at Transforming healthcare through Research, Education and Technology, 10th Annual Interdisciplinary Research conference School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin. Conference Paper [Details]

Conference Poster

Year

Publication

(2007)

The use of Journal clubs as a teaching and learning strategy for use in practice development. Poster presented at Building and Promoting Excellence in Practice International Conference, NUIG.
Conway, Y. (2007) The use of Journal clubs as a teaching and learning strategy for use in practice development. Poster presented at Building and Promoting Excellence in Practice International Conference, NUIG. Conference Poster [Details]

(2007)

Development and Evaluation of a Trauma Documentation Chart. Poster presented at Building and Promoting Excellence in Practice International Conference, NUIG.
Conway, Y ( (2007) Development and Evaluation of a Trauma Documentation Chart. Poster presented at Building and Promoting Excellence in Practice International Conference, NUIG. Conference Poster [Details]